HELPING NEIGHBORS CONNECT

Excelsior Springs was selected as one of Missouri’s Most Neighborly Cities!

The Missouri Good Neighbor Week 2024 ended with over 31,000 documented acts of neighboring and five cities worthy of the title ‘most neighborly city’ in Missouri. Residents are encouraged to keep the spirit of MO Good Neighbor Week alive by continuing to track and document acts of kindness at missourigoodneighborweek.com. It is not a surprise to hear Excelsior Springs is neighborly, we see examples of kindness all the time!

Join The Neighborhood Engagement Team

The Neighborhood Engagement Team is a group of Excelsior Springs residents who wish to promote neighboring, engagement, and connection in Excelsior Springs. Anyone is invited to come share ideas about how to help neighbors connect. Neighborhoods with neighbors who are connected with each other tend to be cleaner, safer and friendlier neighborhoods. The Neighborhood Engagement Team assists the Neighborhood Specialist in planning events designed to bring neighbors and the community together and we encourage each other as we practice good neighboring. Please complete the contact form to request our next meeting time and location.

Block Party and Neighbor Gathering Tips: Get connected with your neighbors!

Neighbors Helping Neighbors and Snow Angels are programs that match willing hands with those who need help with simple chores.

For more information:  Volunteer Here

Battling Isolation and Loneliness

The Surgeon General has declared isolation and loneliness to be epidemics in the United States. Connecting with our neighbors is an effective strategy in combatting isolation and loneliness. The Surgeon General’s webpage has lots of tips and even a booklet called Recipes for Connection that is loaded with ideas, tips and recipes to help us connect with our neighbors.

Breaking the ice with a gift on the door

When I was a kid, my family celebrated May Day.  May Day is a celebration of the beginning of Spring and is remembered on the 1st day of May.  It is customary on May Day to anonymously leave a small basket of flowers on a neighbor’s doorknob.  We had a couple of widows who lived on our street that we often remembered on holidays.  My mother helped me prepare the small paper woven gift baskets with flowers.

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